Speaker for the Diodes

[Context: portraying Romney's opposition to funding
PBS as if it were a mano a ala[*] attack on Big Bird]"Don't worry about Big Bird. He's the avatar of the Eternal
Champion. We've seen him stand up to gods and demons to get
justice for a six year old Egyptian boy who'd been condemned to
eternally roam the Earth. Mittens wouldn't have a chance."
-- wcg,
2012-10-05

[*] Google Translate tells me that's
Spanish for "hand to wing", since "mano a mano" just didn't
sound right when one combatant is a bird, even if
Grandicrocavis
viasesamensis does have fingers.